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Alien Legion
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Publication information
Publisher	Epic Comics
Format	Limited series
Genre	Military science fiction
Publication date	April 1984 â€“ August 1990
Number of issues	38
Creative team
Creator(s)	Carl Potts Alan Zelenetz Frank Cirocco
Collected editions
Slaughter World	ISBN 0871357631
Omnibus Volume 1	ISBN 1595823948

Alien Legion is a science-fiction comic-book series and associated titles created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco for Marvel Comics; Epic Comics imprint in 1983. It features a military unit, Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion.

[edit] Publication history

Alien Legion — cover-titled The Alien Legion for its first two series and initial graphic novel — features a military unit, Force Nomad, similar to the French Foreign Legion. Its characters include leader Sarigar, whose lower half is serpentine; the fully humanoid Torie Montroc; and an alien of the Thraxian race, Jugger Grimrod.

Primary creator Carl Potts and co-creators Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco developed the concept, and in 1983 Marvel Comics' Epic Comics imprint launched the first of several Alien Legion miniseries and one-shots. Collaborators have included writers Chuck Dixon and Larry Stroman, and artists Terry Austin, Whilce Portacio, and Scott Hanna. Potts said in 2000

"The original concept was the 'Foreign Legion in space' and all the legionnaires were human. ... Then I created the humanoid/serpentine design that later became Sarigar and decided that the Legion should include a wide variety of species. This was in the early '70s. By the time I got around to developing the idea further in the early '80s, Star Wars obviously became an influence. The Alien Legion universe is a giant extrapolation of the American democratic melting-pot society where different races and cultures work together for the common good while dealing with the pluses and problems that the nation's diversity creates."^[1]

Dark Horse Comics announced it is publishing a new Alien Legion series in 2010.^[2]

[edit] Publications

• The Alien Legion (20 issues)
• The Alien Legion vol. 2 (18 issues)
• The Alien Legion: A Grey Day To Die (graphic novel)
• Alien Legion: On The Edge (3 issues, bookshelf format)
• Alien Legion: Tenants Of Hell (2 issues, bookshelf format)
• Alien Legion: One Planet At A Time (3 issues, bookshelf format)
• Alien Legion: Grimrod (one-shot, bookshelf format)
• Law Dog - Grimrod: Terror at the Crossroads (one-shot, bookshelf format)
• Alien Legion "Binary Deep (one-shot, bookshelf format)
• Epic: An Anthology #3
• Heavy Hitters Annual

[edit] Collected editions

Some of the stories have been published in trade paperback form.

Checker Book Publishing released the books Force Nomad and Piecemaker that collect the second series, and Footsloggers, which collects the first six issues of the first volume. Titan Books published trade paperbacks of the On the Edge and Tenants of Hell storylines.

Dark Horse Comics published the Alien Legion Omnibus Volume 1 in December 2009, collecting the first seven story arcs of the series (ISBN 1595823948).

[edit] Awards

The graphic novel, Alien Legion: A Grey Day to Die, received the Squiddy Award for Favorite Graphic Album in 1988.^[3]

[edit] In other media

In 2003, Potts was working with Mainframe Entertainment on a possible computer-animated Alien Legion television series but this was abandoned once Mainframe was sold.^{[citation needed]}

In the mid- to late 2000s, Alien Legion was optioned by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and The Walt Disney Company, with screenwriters Derek Haas and Michael Brandt collaborating on a live-action film script.^[2]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Alien Legion official site. WebCitation archive.
• http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/potts_carl.htm Carl Potts] at the Lambiek Comiclopedia